Ruth Wasserman Lande

Ruth Wasserman Lande was born in 1976 in Ashdod

Ruth Wasserman Lande was born in Ashdod to Pinchas and Sofia Lande, immigrants from Lithuania. In 1985 her family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where she attended Herzlia High School. In 1993 she returned to Israel alone.

She studied political science and communication at Bar-Ilan University through the academic reserve program, finishing in 1997. She served in the Military Intelligence research division until 2000 and then earned a master's degree in international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She later studied for a second master's degree at Harvard's Kennedy School as a Wexner scholar.

She joined the Foreign Ministry in 2001 and was posted to the embassy in Cairo in 2003, where she worked on Israeli-Egyptian relations and became acting deputy ambassador. From 2007 to 2009 she advised President Shimon Peres on foreign and diaspora affairs. In 2010 she became deputy director general for foreign relations at the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel.

With her former husband Aviv she founded the Lod Community Foundation in 2008. Since 2019 she has written a column in Maariv on Arab society in Israel, and she comments on Middle East affairs on television.

She entered the Knesset for Blue and White on January 8, 2021, for 5 days, and returned on January 31 after Ram Shefa resigned. After the elections for the 24th Knesset she entered again when Chili Tropper left, serving until 2022. In 2018 she moved with her family to Moshav Gan Yoshiya.